That’s what President Trump, half a world away, had to say a day after a madman with an in-law beef and an assault rifle slaughtered children and grandparents at a tiny rural Texas church.

“Fortunately somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction,” Trump said between meetings in Japan, the first stop in his 12-day Asia tour. “Otherwise, it wouldn’t been as bad as it was. It could have been much worse.”

Much worse? The massacre in Sutherland Springs Sunday was the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history. How do you get much worse than that?

“I think that mental health is your problem here,” Trump said. “This was, based on preliminary reports, a very deranged individual with a lot of problems over a long period of time. We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other countries.”